Best Environmental Books
Contemporary fiction or non-fiction, how-to guides to green living, ecology tracts from the tree-hugging '70s, and those seminal works that chronicled the first stirrings of the conservation ethic.
1 Silent Spring
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 13,052 ratings
2 A Sand County Almanac: With...
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 9,210 ratings
3 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A N...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 84,805 ratings
4 Green Illusions
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4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 311 ratings
5 The Lorax
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4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 115,825 ratings
6 Desert Solitaire
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 13,595 ratings
7 Walden
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 55,045 ratings
8 The World Without Us
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 15,579 ratings
9 Collapse: How Societies Cho...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 27,149 ratings
10 Never Cry Wolf
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 7,954 ratings
11 The Monkey Wrench Gang
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 9,297 ratings
12 A Walk in the Woods: Redisc...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 107,860 ratings
13 Ishmael: An Adventure of th...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 39,298 ratings
14 In Defense of Food: An Eate...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 48,582 ratings
15 Last Child in the Woods: Sa...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 4,560 ratings
16 Cadillac Desert: The Americ...
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 3,076 ratings
17 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 59,168 ratings
18 Eating Animals
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 22,586 ratings
19 Nature Writings: The Story ...
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 257 ratings
20 Cradle to Cradle: Remaking ...
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 4,520 ratings
21 Fast Food Nation: The Dark ...
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 145,620 ratings
22 Born Free: A Lioness of Two...
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 10,900 ratings
23 Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why...
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 7,246 ratings
24 The Song of the Dodo: Islan...
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4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
25 Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 814 ratings
26 Small Wonder
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5,660 ratings
27 Holy Bible: The Green Bible...
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 112 ratings
28 Six Degrees
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 408 ratings
29 The Worst Hard Time: The Un...
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 15,059 ratings
30 Cod: A Biography of the Fis...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 6,567 ratings
31 The Milagro Beanfield War
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 3,684 ratings
32 Cry of the Kalahari
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 939 ratings
32 The Diversity of Life
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
34 Deep Economy: The Wealth of...
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 2,159 ratings
35 The Weather Makers: How Man...
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
35 Refuge: An Unnatural Histor...
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 3,771 ratings
37 Walking
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,003 ratings
37 Everything I Want to Do Is ...
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 696 ratings
39 Field Notes from a Catastro...
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
40 The Hot Zone
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 32,985 ratings
41 Permaculture: A Designers' ...
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4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 565 ratings
42 The Botany of Desire: A Pla...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 22,723 ratings
43 Stalking the Wild Asparagus
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 407 ratings
44 Small Is Beautiful: Economi...
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
45 Last Chance to See
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 8,193 ratings
46 Endgame, Vol. 1: The Proble...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,221 ratings
47 The Riverkeepers: Two Activ...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 88 ratings
48 The Sea Around Us
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 815 ratings
49 Gaviotas: A Village to Rein...
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 373 ratings
50 The Unsettling of America: ...
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4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
51 The End of Nature
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
52 Wandering Home: A Long Walk...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 248 ratings
53 The Empty Ocean
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 75 ratings
53 Harvest for Hope: A Guide t...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
55 Wild Land
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
56 The Population Bomb
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3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 168 ratings
57 Where the Wild Things Were:...
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4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 417 ratings
58 Gaia: A New Look at Life on...
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 471 ratings
59 Wolf Willow
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 287 ratings
60 The Diversity of Living Org...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
61 American Earth: Environment...
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 177 ratings
62 Southcrop Forest
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
63 An Inconvenient Truth: The ...
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 3,692 ratings
64 The Mystic Princesses and t...
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4.63 of 5 stars 4.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
65 Vainglorious Sun
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings
66 Second Nature: A Gardener's...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 2,850 ratings
67 Heat: How to Stop the Plane...
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 424 ratings
68 Green Is the New Red: An In...
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4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 210 ratings
69 The Last Flight of the Scar...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 250 ratings
70 No Logo: No Space, No Choic...
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 10,857 ratings
71 Song for the Blue Ocean: En...
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 273 ratings
72 Earth from Above
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4.48 of 5 stars 4.48 avg rating — 286 ratings
73 Sustainable Energy - Withou...
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 247 ratings
73 The Moon in the Nautilus Sh...
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
75 Food Inc.: A Participant Gu...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6,116 ratings
76 The Secret Knowledge Of Wat...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 619 ratings
77 The Creation: An Appeal to ...
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 526 ratings
78 Playing God in Yellowstone:...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 82 ratings
79 The Fifth Sacred Thing (May...
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 2,545 ratings
80 The Tipping Point: How Litt...
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 222,433 ratings
81 Sleeping Naked is Green: Ho...
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3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 512 ratings
82 The Ecology of Commerce Rev...
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 938 ratings
83 Food Not Lawns: How to Turn...
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 557 ratings
84 Planetwalker: 22 Years of W...
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 319 ratings
85 The Revenge Of Gaia: Why Th...
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 625 ratings
86 A People's Ecology: Explora...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
86 "Legacy, The": An ElderÕs V...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 128 ratings
86 Overheated: The Human Cost ...
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
86 Float
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
86 Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam
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4.76 of 5 stars 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
91 The Post Carbon Reader: Man...
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4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 90 ratings
92 Arctic Dreams
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 2,037 ratings
93 Look To The Mountain: An Ec...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
93 Native Science: Natural Law...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings
93 Earth in Mind: On Education...
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 191 ratings
93 Carnivorous Nights: On the ...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 153 ratings
93 The Sacred Balance: Redisco...
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 443 ratings
98 Twelve by Twelve: A One-Roo...
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3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 481 ratings
98 David Suzuki's Green Guide
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 48 ratings
100 Diet for a Small Planet
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 2,197 ratings
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The biggest problem is there are TOO MANY PEOPLE! What we need is a big plague like the 1918 flu to come around again. How else is the earth going to save itself from too many people?


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